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Workforce

Construction worker throws co-worker off bridge, disappears after jumping in river after him

Police in Charleston, South Carolina, are searching for a construction worker accused of throwing his co-worker off a bridge. Joshua D. Brown, 19, told police he was playing a game on his smartphone and eating some beef jerky when, out of nowhere, McCoy Wright, 30, came up behind him, picked him up and threw him […]

October 15, 2014

Workforce

Construction crew uncovers human bones during gas line install in New York City

A construction crew in New York City made a pretty startling discovery last week when a routine trench dig uncovered human bones. According to the New York Daily News, the crew discovered the bones while digging a trench for a gas main in the borough of Queens on the morning of October 7. Work was […]

October 14, 2014

Construction Equipment

For some reason, thieves stole a 1,300-pound traffic gate from a construction site in Green Bay

We’re not sure what the going rate for traffic gates is on the black market, but it must be enough for someone to go through the trouble of lifting the 1,300-pound object from a construction site. The Green Bay Press-Gazette reports that a thief or group of thieves used a forklift to steal the 22-foot-long gate […]

October 10, 2014

Workforce

Construction worker mauled by tiger loses thumb in Florida

Apparently there are some hazards in construction no toolbox talk can prepare you for. One construction worker learned this the hard way Monday afternoon when his hand was mauled by a tiger while working at a big cat sanctuary near Jupiter, Florida, according to a report from WPEC TV. The sanctuary is a private estate […]

October 8, 2014

Safety

Fashion show goes on despite construction worker’s 30-foot fall through roof

As models strutted down a runway during a fashion show in London earlier this week, a construction worker tumbled through the roof. According to a report from Sky News, the worker is thought to have been working on a building adjacent to the venue where the fashion show was taking place. It’s unclear why, but […]

September 19, 2014

Safety

Construction worker survives after being impaled in chest by power saw blade

While working atop a shopping center in Houston Monday morning, a construction worker was impaled in the chest by the blade of a power saw he was using. Houston Fire Department spokesman Kenyatta Parker told the Associated Press that the saw the worker was using is often used for cutting concrete and metal and “can […]

August 26, 2014

Workforce

Construction workers narrowly escape jobsite shootings in Michigan and NYC

As temperatures have soared on jobsites across the U.S., so too, apparently, have tempers. Nearly two weeks ago, a construction worker stabbed and killed his co-worker while they were renovating a department store in South Carolina. And now come two reports of jobsite shootings just weeks apart. First, in New York City, a worker on […]

August 26, 2014

Workforce

Construction worker stabs and kills coworker in South Carolina department store

Authorities near Charleston, South Carolina have arrested a man they say stabbed and killed a coworker while they were renovating a department store. Dennis Elvin Cervantes-Pavon, 33, was arrested last week for stabbing Raymond Muniz, 28, inside a Belk store they were working to renovate, according to a report from The Post and Courier. Police told […]

August 20, 2014

Construction Equipment

11-year-old boy arrested for doing $10,000 damage to construction site

Vandalism on construction sites is an unfortunately common intrusion that contractors everywhere have to deal with every once in a while. But very few are the handiwork of a grade-schooler like one recent incident in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. On the morning of August 12 a crew building a series of one bedroom homes arrived […]

August 18, 2014

Business

Mud in Your Mouth: How Rex’s Outrageous developed Road Crew Crunch, a line of construction-themed snacks

Blame it on Grandma. “My grandmother had a snack mix she called Gravel,” relates Daren Rexroad (but please call him “Rex”), “made of peanuts, pretzels, cereal and white chocolate.”  Using her recipe, Rex started experimenting, substituting dark chocolate there, milk chocolate here. Soon he had several snack mixes people were urging him to start selling. […]

August 4, 2014

Construction Equipment

Excavator used to kill pedestrian, flip bus in terrorist rampage in Jerusalem

One man is dead and six others are wounded in the aftermath of a terrorist attack in Jerusalem carried out by a construction worker driving an excavator. Police identified the driver as 30-year-old Muhammed Naif El-Ja’abis, a Palestinian man from East Jerusalem working on a building site near the “‘seam’ between the western and eastern parts […]

August 4, 2014

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California dam construction unearths collection of 20 million-year-old fossils

Since construction began in 2011 on the new dam for the Calaveras Reservoir near Malpitas, California, construction crews and paleontologists have unearthed an impressive collection of fossils dating as far back as 20 million years. Paleontologist Jim Walker tells the San Jose Mercury News that the collection of fossils give scientists an idea of what […]

July 8, 2014